Make a robot friend with Adafruit’s CRICKIT – A Creative Robotics & Interactive Construction Kit. It’s an add-on to our popular Circuit Playground Express, FEATHER and other platforms to make and program robots with CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino.

Start controlling motors, servos, solenoids. You also get signal pins, capacitive touch sensors, a NeoPixel driver and amplified speaker output. It complements & extends your boards so you can still use all the goodies on the microcontroller, now you have a robotics playground as well.

This guide shows you how to build a robotic turtle using recyclable materials and two motors powered by Adafruit’s CRICKIT.

This guide also demonstrates how to use MakeCode to control two DC motors in response to a bright light, making interactive robotics approachable and easy to experiment with.

Check out the guide and try it out for yourself!